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MA-GOV candidate Bob Massie has been a climate activist for years. Among many other things he’s done in his remarkable life, he started CERES, an organization I really admire, which has quite successfully gotten businesses on board for climate sustainability.

He can also wield a rhetorical shillelagh. He’s right on top of why the Baker administration has been such a disappointment (or just a fulfillment of low expectations) on climate and energy. On WGBH’s The Scrum podcast:

We are headed down right now absolutely the wrong road right now. We have utilities that should be serving the public; they are serving their investors and hedge funds that own them. We do not need any more natural gas capacity; in fact it’s dangerous to think about installing, because it locks us into fossil fuels for 30 years. I would start by dismissing the commissioners at the Department of Public Utilities because they work for the fossil fuel industry; that is their background. The governor has slowed wind, he has slowed solar. He has pushed for these pipelines. He is doing the exact opposite of what most countries around the world today are doing, which is embracing the technology the 21st-century. We are at risk of missing the greatest opportunity — economic opportunity in terms of jobs — in the history of Massachusetts, in order to safeguard a broken, dying, dangerous, dirty industry that remains in too much control. So this — as Governor, I will work to undo that control, and move us in a direction that I think most businesses and families will support. But we do not have the leadership, we’re stuck in that broken model that should be disbanded.

The whole thing is quite good. He’s talking to the people who are frustrated with the timidity of this administration on energy, transit, taking on Trump, etc. Don’t ignore this candidacy — he’s speaking to the moment.

Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem
A teenager well known for mental struggles buys a weapon of mass destruction that has no place outside of war.
And up until yesterday’s massacre it was all perfectly legal.
Isn’t that proof of the problem? #nra

Digital First Media won the Boston Herald in a five-hour bankruptcy auction with an $11.9 million bid that all but settles who will carry the news organization into the next chapter of the city’s rich media history.

The Denver-based company fought off two other suitors — GateHouse Media and Revolution Capital — yesterday afternoon in the 18th-floor offices of the Herald’s bankruptcy attorneys, Brown Rudnick.

This is probably good news. I don’t know anything about Digital First, and I imagine the transition will be tough on the existing staff. But I would really hate to see Boston become a one-newspaper town. Newspapers still matter.

Big shake-up for the Western Mass delegation as Rep. Kulik of Worthington (1st Franklin district) and Rep. Scibak of South Hadley (2nd Hampshire district) announced their retirement today. Kulik was first elected in 1993, Scibak in 2002.

Jeremy Corbyn really understands what the future of the grid needs to be in an age of anthropogenic climate change.

A green energy system will look radically different to the one we have today. The past is a centralised system with a few large plants. The future is decentralised, flexible and diverse with new sources of energy large and small, from tidal to solar.

Smart technologies will optimise usage so that instead of keeping gas plants running just in case there is a lull in renewable generation the system fulfils needs by identifying the greenest, most local energy source.

There will be much more use of local, micro grids and of batteries to store and balance fluctuating renewable energy.

We will still need a grid to match energy supply with demand and import and export renewable energy abroad because the wind won’t always blow where energy is needed.